There is a strong emotional context between my character Deckard that I play and other characters… It was a really gratifying experience, I had a good time. to be a part of that anyway was surreal, but then to get to set and realize the sets were fully functioning worlds that you could inhabit… The props worked… You were just completely immersed in this universe that you grew up watching and imagining so it was very impressive, overwhelming.

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I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.

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I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

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I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

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I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

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I try not to discriminate against genres.

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I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

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I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

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I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

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I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

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I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

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I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but, its not who you are.

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I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with [...] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there’s only so much I can do on my own.

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It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.

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A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.

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As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

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[Mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.

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Id like to try and thank one person properly, and to say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences Ive ever had on a film, my lady was raising Amada Lee, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer.

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I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [ and ] that's how we chose to view it, i also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.

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I just would like to try and thank one person properly and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I've ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer, if she hadn't have taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today.

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